Hampshire students accused of attacking Central Maine Community College students over braids in their hair. Conflict is latest over contested adoption of one culture's styles by another.

Medical research funding bodies are “not doing enough” to reduce wasteful grant spending, according to the co-author of a study investigating the issue.

The Trump administration is seeking to cut $9.2 billion — or 13.5 percent — from the Education Department’s budget, a dramatic downsizing that would reduce or eliminate grants for teacher training, after-school programs and aid to ­low-income and first-generation college students.

As a woman who has chronicled the technology business for close to three decades (ahem), I’m used to being at briefings where the gender demographics are way out of balance and I am decidedly in the minority.

An educational institution in Dalian in Northeast China’s Liaoning province, has begun teaching foreigners the Chinese language using the letters of the Roman alphabet.

Academics should stop using the term “reading list” because it leads to a over-reliance on paper-based books and sidelines online learning materials, a senior university librarian has argued.

By cutting a third of program's surplus and slashing other aid programs, Trump administration's first budget would imperil college access, advocates argue.

Applying for financial aid for college got a lot harder this month, in the thick of application season, but it took federal agencies nearly a week to explain what was happening.

Dubai has announced yet another pioneering initiative, but this time it's not the world's first rotating skyscraper or 3D printed office. It's a fleet of flying taxis.

Chicago is making moves to keep foreign entrepreneurs in its city.